On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:21:34AM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > See Erik, a key difference between you and me is I tend to say things > like "reasonable people can differ on this issue" and you don't.
Actucally, the difference is that I don't think it is reasonable to hold an attitude that people unlike me should be denied human rights. So, Gautam, is bigotry reasonable? Is slavery reasonable? Is justice reasonable? > In either case, again, I don't believe that anyone has the right to > try to kill me. And I believe that I _do_ have the right to try to > protect myself from them. The problem is you lump together everyone sufficiently unlike you into the sub-human category and assume, without proof, that they "tried to kill you" and therefore you can treat them as sub-human. It may be human nature ingrained through millions of years of evolution to treat the "other" as evil, but we really should be reasonable enough now to realize the problems with that. > So, Erik, be a reasonable person. How would you deal with the > problem? If it is impossible to give the prisoners are speedy, fair trial because it will endanger US personnel, then the prisoners need to be released. > Those are better than the people in Guantanamo have a right to. Spoken like a true bigot. I certainly hope you are never in a position of deciding justice, seeing as how innocent until proven guilty seems to be a meaningless concept to you. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
